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===Purpose of Privacy Policies===
===Purpose of Privacy Policies===
To relieve users' fears, websites started creating privacy policies. These policies explain in great detail how a website plans to use, distribute, and store a user's information and the rights the user has to retrieve it from the company. [write more stuff]


==Laws and Standards for Website Privacy Policy==
==Laws and Standards for Website Privacy Policy==
===Current Standards===
===Current Standards===
===Recent Laws===
===Recent Laws===

Revision as of 22:46, 30 July 2008

Privacy policies outline a site’s practices for data collection, retention, sharing, and use. The privacy policy has become increasingly important with the profit potential in marketing private data and more sites requiring personal information to access their services. Laws such as the “Shine the Light” law enacted in California, and the European Commission’s Directive on Data Protection have been catalysts in encouraging sites to enact and display a privacy policy. However, receipt of a privacy policy does not guarantee that it will be read; widely varied legal terminology which the policies are written in make them difficult to understand, and their length requires much time to consider fully.

Examine the role of online privacy policies. What ethical considerations do confusing, difficult to locate, lengthy, frequently changing, or otherwise problem-ridden privacy polices pose? What recent changes have been made or do you suggest could be made to improve privacy policies to better address these ethical considerations?

Internet Privacy

Information Privacy

Privacy is "the quality or condition of being secluded from the presence or view of others." From a technological view, this means that a person should be able to be in full control of who can see data that refers to that person. This can be information such as personal emails, name, contact information, credit card information, health records, web surfing habits etc. As software grows more advanced and users are opening up more on the web, this leads to a higher chance of a person's private information being viewed or distributed by parties that the user does not want doing so.

Purpose of Privacy Policies

To relieve users' fears, websites started creating privacy policies. These policies explain in great detail how a website plans to use, distribute, and store a user's information and the rights the user has to retrieve it from the company. [write more stuff]

Laws and Standards for Website Privacy Policy

Current Standards

Recent Laws